Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Quotations
Suffering
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering. Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction? Without good men to hold it up, the family house will fall when misfortune descends.
-Scriptures "Tirukkural 103:1029-1030"
